QuArK is the Quake Army Knife, a multi-purpose tool for games based on or similar to the Quake engine by id Software. QuArK has the ability to directly edit maps, and to a limited extent, models, and can import, export and convert sounds, textures and various other game assets. It is also able to modify .pak and .pk3 files, as well as importing compiled BSP's in order to study the entities as well as add/change/delete entities from these files.
QuArK is completely different from and not related to the desktop publishing program Quark. QuArK is a Map-editor for many games: Quake 1, Hexen 2, Soldier of Fortune, Quake 2, Heretic 2, Half-Life, Kingpin, Sin, Star Trek:Voyager-Elite Force, Quake-3:Arena.
Here are some key features of "QuArK":
· Map-editor for many games: Quake 1, Hexen 2, Quake 2, Heretic 2, Half-Life, Sin, Kingpin, Soldier of Fortune, Quake 3: Arena, Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, Half-Life 2 and a lot more... Look here for a more complete list.
· Unique and editable tree-view display, which shows objects that the map/model consists of.
· 3D preview with software-, OpenGL- and 3Dfx(Glide)-render.
· Colored lights in OpenGL 3D preview.
· 2-, 3- and 4-view layout of map-editor.
· Textured view edit in map-editor.
· Texture-browser with textures neatly grouped into categories.
· Mirror-, Duplicator- and Hollow-maker functions for easy map-making.
· Extendable with plug-ins, coded in Python.
· Negative brushes - creates a movable hole, no more redoing your carving/brush subtraction.
· Bezier/patch editing, with helper functions to ease creation.
· Manipulate brushes, textures and entities directly in the 3D windows.
· Player-, monster- and item-models viewable in 3D preview. (Not all games)
· Unique high accuracy of brush- and texture-alignment in map-editor. (May require special build-programs)
· Mailing-lists supplied by YahooGroups, for easy communication to and from QuArK users.
· Project-explorer to keep all files of the TC/PC/MOD collected in one file.
· A fully functional model-editor (Not all model formats are supported)
· Customizable keys, mouse-buttons, colors and more.
· Extremely newbie-friendly map-editor, very different from other popular map-editors, with context help and intuitive functions.
Requirements:
· Intel Pentium or compatible
· Minimum amount of RAM needed differs per game, but at least 64 MB is advised
· About 40 MB of free disk space to install QuArK
· Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· [cdunde]: Added keyframe fill-in frames creation support for single and multiple component selections.
· [cdunde]: Added complete section in the InfoBase Docs for the Model Editor about tags with F1 links.
· [cdunde/DanielPharos]: Added support for .md3 animationCFG (configuration) support and editting.
· [cdunde/DanielPharos]: Added support for animation interpolation in the Model Editor. - (computation of added movement to emulate game action)
· [cdunde]: Setup function to attach tags for imported .md3 models, such as weapons.
· [cdunde]: Setup of tag menus and icons.
· [cdunde/DanielPharos]: Added Python .md3 import support with tags, animation, shader and skin files.
· [cdunde]: Added support for multiple bone sets for imported models and their animations.
· [cdunde/DanielPharos]: Added .md5mesh and .md5anim model exporter - including bones, skins and shaders.
· [cdunde/DanielPharos]: Support started for granny .gr2 model importing with bones using - QuArK's bui...
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